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NEW DELHI: One of the top bosses of Pakistan's intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has held talks with Osama bin Laden’s key aides in Miram Shah in Pakistan’s restive federal administered tribal Area, according to Times Now. In fact, highly placed intelligence sources told Times Now that around the time when Pakistan’s foreign minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi was visiting Washington and meeting officials of the Barack Obama administration and reaffirming Pakistan's determination to fight terrorism, a senior ISI official of the rank of a major-general no less was meeting Sirajuddin Haqqani considered an ally of the Taliban as also...

March 05, 2009 Obama disses Brit PM Rosslyn Smith The press does not seem happy with the way President Obama treated Prime Minister Brown during his short visit to Washington, DC. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post noted that Somewhere in the British Embassy, a bronze bust of Churchill was turning in its storage crate. British Prime ministers are just not treated this way by American presidents. They are personally greeted at the airport. THey are treated to state dinners or overnights at Camp David. Their private meetings are always followed by a long joint press conference in which members...

President assures the 'disenfranchised' that share prices for even the largest companies will go down to levels that even his brother in Kenya can afford! 5-year Dow chart:http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=^DJI#chart1:symbol=^dji;range=5y;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined 1-day Dow chart (real-time updating):http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=^DJI#chart1:symbol=^dji;range=1d;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined __________________________________________________ Barack Obama's 'lost' brother found in Kenya George Hussein Onyango Obama, Senator Barack Obama's long lost brother was tracked down living in a hut on the outskirts of NairobiSenator Barack Obama's long lost brother has been tracked down for the first time living in a shanty town in Kenya, reports claimed Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate's half-brothers, spoke for the first time...

From Pres. Obama’s just-concluded remarks at the big health-care forum in DC, kicking off his administration’s efforts to achieve major reform this year, come three examples of the kind of hype that portend . . . ill. PRES. OBAMA: I know people are skeptical about whether Washington can bring about this change. Our inability to reform healthcare in the past is just one example of how special interests have had their way and the public interest has fallen by the wayside. And I know people are afraid we’ll draw the same old lines in the sand and give into the...

Europeans were among the loudest cheerleaders for Barack Obama during his presidential campaign. Soon after he won the Democratic candidacy 200,000 people turned out in Berlin to hear him speak. But now that he is settled in the White House, many Europeans feel snubbed. Just six weeks into his presidency, Europeans are already fretting that Obama has yet to visit Europe. His Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, flew west for her first foreign trip, spending a week in Asia last month, before traveling to the Middle East. Meanwhile, Obama has returned the Winston Churchill bust that sat in the Oval...

The U.S. senator appointed by the disgraced ex-governor of Illinois seems to have weathered a storm of controversy. Fellow Democrats are no longer demanding that Sen. Roland Burris resign. The new Illinois governor has stopped calling for a special election to replace him. And party leaders who control the Senate and Illinois state Legislature are reluctant to risk losing his seat to Republicans. "He's not going to go anywhere. I'm convinced of that," said congressman Phil Hare, one of the first Illinois Democrats to call for Burris to step down...

Does anyone with experience in these matters know what can be done, if anything, if your business becomes unionized as a result of card check? Are there any civil disobediance measures a business owner could take against the unionization? Could you shut down or lock out the operation? Obviously, this would be expensive, but so will forcibly having a union imposed on your business.

The British have begun to worry about the “special relationship” in the Anglosphere since the election of Barack Obama. First, the visit from Gordon Brown failed to get the usual Rose Garden joint-presser treatment from the White House this week. Now the Daily Mail reports that Obama cheaped out on the traditional gift exchange, rustling up some DVDs in exchange for a thoughtful gift from Brown:

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This week it’s been revealed that President Obama’s top White House advisors are launching a long-planned Nixonian attack on Rush Limbaugh intended to hurt the Republican Party. This Chicago-style strategy is the exact opposite of what President Obama promised during the campaign. While he promised to be the next Ronald Reagan, he is instead the next Richard Nixon.First, we saw President Obama’s top advisor, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, use a Sunday-morning national show, Face the Nation, to say Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party. Then Wednesday, President Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe, wrote a...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) - A Canadian judge ruled Thursday that a man accused of beheading and cannibalizing a fellow Greyhound bus passenger is not criminally responsible due to mental illness. The decision means Chinese immigrant Vince Li will be treated in a mental institution instead of going to prison. The family of victim Tim McLean dismissed the trial as a "rubber stamp" that allows Li to get away with murder. "A crime was still committed here, a murder still occurred," said Carol deDelley, McLean's mother. "There was nobody else on that bus holding a knife, slicing up my child." The...

Three Israelis say the fear of attacks from nearby Gaza is just as great as it was before the recent conflict. Israel's three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip was aimed at significantly reducing Palestinian rocket fire into southern Israel. ATARA ORENBUCH, mother of six children, Sderot Today we had two Qassams. Every time there's a red alert, you drop everything and run to shelter. You lose a heartbeat each time. I know my children are safe in school, but it's the journey there and back I worry about. The terrorists love that time between 0730 and 0800. Every morning, we...

Wall Street has soured on the new Administration's policy moves. Can this relationship be saved? At least on Wall Street, the honeymoon is over for President Barack Obama. Polls still show the President has strong popularity among the general U.S. population, and Obama continues to command power in Congress. But among investors, fairly or unfairly, there is griping that the new Obama Administration is at least partly to blame for the recent slide in stocks. Since Nov. 4, Election Day, the broad Standard & Poor's 500-stock index is off about 25%, and since Jan. 20, when Obama took office, the...

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Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd is heaping praise on President Obama's proposed $3.55 trillion budget with its built-in (lowball) $1.75 trillion deficit — the entire federal budget 10 years ago was $1.6 trillion — and record $1 trillion in new soak-the-rich taxes over 10 years to fund the next step toward health-care rationing and other socialism. The budget "makes critical investments in our economic future," said Sen. Dodd, whose years of deal-cutting with financiers left the U.S. economy in tatters, cost millions of Americans their jobs, and led to trillions in new government borrowing, hundreds of billions in bailouts for irresponsible...

Well, I apologize. I was wrong. The DSCC screed I posted earlier today was not the anti-Rush rant of the day; just an opener. It appears that the entire Democratic Party has decided to make this some sort of deranged crusade. The good news is, if they're tilting with Limbaugh, it's taking time away from scheming more ways to waste our money. This broadside is from the Democratic National Committee:

At a local Tea party in New Braunfels Texas was a sign that read: "Thanks a Trillion, Obama!" Have you seen the small, square "W" bumper stickers? Well, the dems have hijacked the idea with a W sticker that has "worst ever" in small letters below the W. Perhaps we should return the favor and hijack the Obama logo and place it right in the middle of a bumper sticker right where the capital O is in this phrase: "Much wOrse than W" Graphic artists, anyone? Arguably, Obama has done Rush a great favor by groveling in the dirt in...

In short, GE plans to get rich by being one of the government’s closest partners — which it has always been, thanks to its unmatched lobbying efforts.

Wide receiver Terrell Owens is out in Dallas after three seasons, Cowboys sources told FOXSports.com. The move to cut Owens comes a season after the team gave him a four-year, $34 million extension that included a $12 million bonus. When asked about now cutting the receiver, one Cowboys source said, "It was the right thing to do," alluding to the fact that the team is trying to create a more harmonious locker room.

Now some, including Rush Limbaugh, would say I am on another enemies list: that of the White House. Limbaugh says there are only a handful of us on it, and if I am on it for defending all of the shareholders out there, then I am in good company. Limbaugh -- whom I do not know personally, but having been in radio myself, know professionally as a genius of the medium -- says, "They're going to shut Cramer up pretty soon, too, but he'll go down with a fight." Limbaugh's dead right. I am a fight-not-flight guy, so I was...